Credit funds: Opportunity knocks

More on credit opportunity funds

“Everyone’s raising a lot of money, and by the time that money’s in place, is the opportunity going to be there?” Richard Munn, Oak Hill Advisors

Thanks to the kind of lending practices that precipitated this summer’s credit crunch, many managers in the credit markets have long seen distressed debt as the next big thing. As long ago as 2005, firms such as Intermediate Capital Managers, Blue Bay Asset Management and Babson Capital were establishing credit opportunity funds to take advantage of stressed and distressed assets should the market turn.